Notability
Notability overview
Notability is a powerful note-taker to annotate documents, sketch ideas, record lectures, take notes and more. It combines, typing, handwriting, audio recording, and photos so you can create notes that fit your needs. With iCloud support, your notes are always available on iPad, iPhone and Mac. Anytime, anywhere.
Notability is optimized for Mac:
- Quickly create notes by dragging documents, photos, or audio recordings from the desktop and dropping onto the library.
- Enhance notes by dragging photos, audio recordings, and PDFs from the desktop and dropping onto a note.
- Get more done with smart keyboard shortcuts.
- Handwriting and sketches can be scaled, transformed, free and constrained rotated, nudged (with arrow keys), and restyled.
- Notes look the same on Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
Capture memorable notes with these essential features:
- Type reports and outlines in a variety of fonts, sizes, colors and styles.
- Text automatically reflows around images.
- Handwriting has been fine-tuned to be smooth and expressive using a trackpad or mouse.
- Sketch and write using a variety of colors, line widths, and styles.
- Record audio during lectures and meetings to capture more detail.
- Import audio recordings from other sources.
What’s new in version 10.4.5
Updated on Jul 30 2021
Version 10.4.5:
- Now allowing the same note to be viewed in multiple windows
- Improvements to the web clip feature
- Added keyboard shortcuts for changing the font size, zooming and deselecting
- Bold / italic / underline keyboard shortcuts work on captions
- Text boxes are now created using the last used font and size
- Fixed a bug using the delete key while renaming notes
- Fixed an issue where actions would not apply to all selected notes
- Thumbnails of notes are rendered correctly in the trash
- Stability improvements
Information
App requirements
- Intel 64
- macOS 10.15 or later
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Dec 16 2021
Version: 10.4.5
Since I already have Notability (with >4000 documents), I can't find your new pricing scheme but I saw it once and was horrified. You need to have a plan similar to Goodnotes - your prime competitor. I am afraid you are going to see a huge decline in new customers - a.k.a. your income.
See https://beingpaperless.com/notability-vs-goodnotes-5/.
May 20 2021
Version: 10.4.1
This application is very useful, especially the recording function. There is a slight lag for notes and audio, so while the recording capability is the main feature of this app, this feature needs to be improved.
Feb 25 2020
Version: 4.2.2
In principle a nice app, first of all because of the synchronisation between different devices (iOS, iPAD, MacOS), but:
-PDF are not searchable, because they are converted to raster - why?
-Inserting individual text boxes is a pain in the ***
-there is a bug in in the current 4.2.2 for macos: PDF-export of annotated notes does not work, also it would be good to export many notes in a bulk, eg as zip file containing all pdf
Apr 18 2018
Version: 2.9.1
for a Version 2 with an "Insert Space" function I would happily pay 50$ !!
Apr 14 2018
Version: 2.9
It is going to become more usable.
To bad, that there is no "insert space" Button / Command as it is in Onenote for PC.
A note taking App should be better than pen and paper not only imitating it.
Jan 16 2018
Version: 2.8.1
"Notes look the same on Mac, iPad, and iPhone" Well they don't because there is no dark ui on the mac version so the notes are the same but they look different visually to the ios versions... still waiting
Nov 4 2016
Version: 2.3.1
Just found it, looked good, and and paid (also iOS). But 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 does crash immediately (10.9.5). No solution from dev.
Oct 12 2016
Version: 2.3.0
I like Notability, it works well across my iphone, ipad and Macbook, syncs ok with Dropbox, although does not seem to sync locked items. However it is great value compared to a certain other note keeping system.
My only comment is PLEASE can we have the dark UI on the Mac version to match the ios versions
My only comment is PLEASE can we have the dark UI on the Mac version to match the ios versions
Feb 22 2016
Version: 2.1.0
I quite like Notability for its flexibility. In particular I use it to take notes at conferences in presentations. I can take notes and record audio at the same time. Later, I can look at a particular note I took, and the app will take me straight to the point in the audio when I wrote that note down – great for getting context for a note. Also syncs beautifully to my iPhone or iPad. (Actually, I use the iPad version at those conferences!)
Jan 17 2016
Version: 2.0.1
The desktop and mobile apps are very good. The most recent update has dramatically improved the UI aesthetics. and functionality. Syncing is flawless.
Nov 21 2015
Version: 1.7.0
Warning:
After the update today notability 1.7.0 crashes immediately.
May 10 2015
Version: 1.05
Thanks to the App Store policy, I to buy this to try it out :-/. Anyway, I very quickly came to realize that this is not a good note taking tool for me. I'm an engineer and I'm often drawing circuits, graphs, writing equations etc. I use a Wacom graphics tablet connected to my Mac for this because I don't like the kind of stylus that typically comes with an iPad. Anyway, I sketched out a circuit and went to use the eraser only to find out all the drawing was vector based and the eraser would delete every object it touched instead of behaving like a real eraser would on a pencil drawing i.e. erase only where the eraser touched. Then I went to select an odd shaped piece in the middle of my drawing so I could move it but the only selection tool available was a selection rectangle - it didn't even have a lasso tool. Sigh - I wasted my money. It has potential, I just need to wait for it to get some basic drawing related features first...
Feb 13 2015
Version: 1.04
This app has been great on iOS and the desktop version makes the iOS version that much mor useful. This app is not a go to app for my desktop except that it makes my notes available for integration with othe apps. It's more of a support app for the iOS version. I love the flexibility it gives the iOS app. This app is a very good one that I hope will conte to develop and grow.
Sep 16 2014
Version: 1
Though you can sync via iCloud, I'd really rather have LOCAL sync similar to what you could do using Bento. Anyway, glad to see this is available now for Mac.
Sep 15 2014
Version: 1
Been waiting for this for a long time. The missing piece in my note-taking process. Works with the iOS Notability app for seamless, hassle-free syncing across Mac and iOS devices.
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